Cyber specialists, on the recommendation of law enforcement officers, blocked more than 2,500 websites that hosted gambling or hosted online casino resources without the appropriate license.
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The Office of the Prosecutor General reported this.
As of April 2024, more than 450 criminal offenses are being investigated for illegal gambling. Suspicion was reported to 21 people. Indictments were sent to the court against 72 people, including 7 indictments against 68 members of criminal groups.
In 2023, 169 offenses of this category were registered, 74 persons were informed of suspicion. 52 indictments against 97 people were sent to court. More than 7 thousand units of computer and other equipment were seized, about 500 searches and 700 inspections of addresses were carried out. The activities of 10 casinos have ceased. 10 indictments were sent to the court against 42 individuals who are members of criminal groups.
We would like to remind you that on April 20, Vladimir Zelensky put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to restrict gambling on the Internet, and the ESB reported that they were conducting an investigation into the evasion of taxes of more than 1 billion UAH by the well-known gambling organizer of the Cosmolot casino.
Today, Ukrainians spend almost 400 million hryvnia in online casinos every day, said Alexey Leonov, a member of the committee on finance and customs policy.
There is such a terrible figure, it was even before the war, that almost 18% of suicide cases in the Armed Forces of Ukraine were committed by military personnel who had a gambling addiction and acquired significant financial debts,” Leonov added.
Previously, OpenDatabot analysts investigated that as of the beginning of 2024, there were about 3.7 people in the Register of Gamblers in Ukraine.
Source: Racurs
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